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An Information Economics Perspective on Main Bank Relationships and Firm R&D
Hoewer, Daniel - 2011
more than 7,000 firm observations in Germany over a multi-year period. Our theoretical predictions are only supported for …
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Does Immigration Weaken Natives' Support for the Welfare State? Evidence from Germany
Stichnoth, Holger - 2010
effect. Also, the effect of immigration on support for redistribution has not been studied for Germany - Europe's largest …
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Spatial Model Selection and Spatial Knowledge Spillovers : A Regional View of Germany
Klarl, Torben - 2010
Knowledge and technological change are often assumed to be the driving forces for long run economic growth. Regions with a higher level of knowledge compared to other regions exhibit a higher per-capita income on average. Agglomeration effects can lead to a steady increase of income and widen...
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Innovative Capability and Financing Constraints for Innovation More Money, More Innovation?
Hottenrott, Hanna; Peters, Bettina - 2012
Economic theory suggests that financing constraints may occur due to capital market imperfections. These particularly affect investments in innovation projects as such projects are typically characterized by a high degree of uncertainty, complexity and specificity. Financing innovation...
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Productivity Effects of Business Process Outsourcing - A Firm-Level Investigation Based on Panel Data
Ohnemus, Jörg - 2010
This paper analyses the impact of business process outsourcing (BPO) on firm productivity based on a comprehensive German firm-level panel data set covering manufacturing and service industries. The growing importance of service inputs into the production process is undisputed. Firms...
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Oil and Unemployment in Germany
Löschel, Andreas; Oberndorfer, Ulrich - 2009
In this paper, we analyze oil price impacts on unemployment for Germany. Firstly, we survey theoretical and empirical … framework of a vector autoregression (VAR) approach for Germany. For this purpose, we use three different specifications in … restricted sample period for post-unification Germany, we oppose claims that the oil to macroeconomy relationship has weakened …
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The Creative Class, Bohemians and Local Labor Market Performance - A Micro-Data Panel Study for Germany 1975-2004
Moeller, Joachim - 2009
The paper aims at testing Florida's concept of the Creative Class using panel data for 323 West German regions for the time period 1975-2004. Applying a dynamic system approach based on GMM, we find that the local concentration of the Creative Class has predictive power for the economic...
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Educational Effects of Early or Later Secondary School Tracking in Germany
Mühlenweg, Andrea - 2018
This paper examines educational outcomes of pupils selected to secondary school types by different tracking regimes in a German state: Pupils are alternatively streamed after fourth grade or after sixth grade. Regression results indicate that, estimated on the mean, there are no negative effects...
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Heterogeneous Returns to Training an Analysis with German Data Using Local Instrumental Variables
Kuckulenz, Anja - 2018
Empirical work on the wage impact of training has noted that unobserved heterogeneity of training participants should play a role. The expected return to training, which partly depends on unobservable characteristics, is likely to be a crucial criterion in the decision to take part in training...
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The Change of Sales Modes in International Markets - Empirical Results for German and British High-Tech Firms
Fryges, Helmut - 2015
-based firms in Germany and the UK, this paper applies logistic regressions and analyses empirically the probabilities of changing …
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